"Joomla! project leader Louis Landry and his colleagues want to protect the project they love. That's why, after two years of allowing proprietary plugins for the open source CMS, the group has decided to ask third-party developers for voluntary compliance with the terms of the GNU General Public License, under which Joomla! is licensed."
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aboutblank
17 years 16 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago
Free software is not synonymous
Free software is not synonymous with non-commercial.
mattflaschen
17 years 16 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago
And proprietary isn't synonymous
And proprietary isn't synonymous with commercial. What's your point?
activist
17 years 16 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago
I support their decision, other
I support their decision, other projects should learn from this and make sure from the beginning that people uses a free software license...
aboutblank
17 years 16 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago
From the article: > Regardless,
From the article:
> Regardless, Knafo is vehemently against the idea of re-licensing her extensions. "We will never release our software as GPL, never!" She says the core team doesn't understand what it is asking of the third-party developers. "The Joomla! core developers are very young. They don't have a lot of real life experience. They don't understand how things work in the real world. If you don't compensate people in the real world, they're not going to do it."
> Knafo says she and other third-party developers are looking at all their options. "There are many thoughts about creating a fork that's friendly to commercial developers," she says. "Then there will be Joomla!, with lots of free extensions but no commercial ones, and a fork that has support for commercial extensions. This could be really bad for Joomla!. If they leave us no choice, we will do that. We have already put so much effort into this, and we want to keep doing business."
These statements imply that free (GPL) software are inherently non-commercial. The truth is, GPL is inherently non-proprietary, not non-commercial.
mattflaschen
17 years 16 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago
"Then there will be Joomla!, with
"Then there will be Joomla!, with lots of free extensions but no commercial ones, and a fork that has support for commercial extensions." I don't see how such a fork would give them any more rights. Proprietary extensions would still seem to be a violation.